Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-158) and index

Crisis grief : the hour of lead -- The work of mourning : assessing the relationship and letting go -- Brutal gifts : loss as a vehicle for growth -- Risk factors : circumstances that complicate -- Stuck in denial : when crisis grief goes awry -- Perennial mourners : when loss has no resolution -- Engulfed mourners : when grief turns to depression -- A death in the family : how parents and children mourn -- Adaptations and therapy -- Creative resolutions : when grief inspires

With insight into the psychodynamics of mourning, Volkan and Zintl focus first on the most concrete of losses, death, and establish it as part of a continuum of loss--resulting from divorce, or the loss of a dream, an ideal, a friendship, a homeland, even a former self

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